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- From: mike@execu.execu.com (Mike McCants)
- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Subject: Re: ages Environmental Show Trials
- Message-ID: <3643@execu.execu.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 20:24:50 GMT
- References: <1992Aug20.125508.12570@ornl.gov> <1992Aug25.185435.3025@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Aug26.034714.1379@vexcel.com>
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- In article <1992Aug26.034714.1379@vexcel.com> dean@vexcel.com (Dean Myerson) writes:
- >The deaths of millions of people? How ridiculous. Please show me something
- >that proves how a leveling of CO2 emissions in the 1st world will kill
- >millions of people.
-
- Many are currently starving to death in Somalia. Could the 1st world
- have done/do more to save them? If the GNP of the 1st world were
- seriously reduced, would we find it possible to say "we can't afford it"
- the next time?
-
- But no, I don't want to claim that a "leveling" of CO2 emissions would
- cause a serious reduction in GNP. We still have 2 discussions: 1) a mere
- leveling as an ineffectual response as opposed to 2) a serious response
- that might have serious economic consequences.
-